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The National Institute of Design(NID) is an autonomous institution backed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. NID holds a prominent stature in the domain of design study. It has also been recognized as the Institute of National Importance by the act of parliament in 2014.
NID currently offers bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral degrees in a plethora of design study domains and which are highly sought after by the students. Recently, UGC has turned down its request to get a deemed university tag and NID has decided not to be persistent with its request of getting a tag. NID today stands at the level of winning the power of being a full-fledged university and is a deserving one but UGC denies the fact. NID sought deemed university status back in 2005 but after a 4 year-long wait, their ask was denied. Although, during that period of time, around 50 institutes that look dwarf in front of an institute like NID were awarded the deemed university label. The UGC formulations of teachers’ standards do not match the requirement of NID. So NID is yet to be UGC approved.
The NID is set to win the power to award degrees through an act of Parliament while staying autonomous of the UGC requirements for deemed universities. At present, the institute offers only undergraduate and postgraduate diplomas.
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